Trashbytes wrote on Today, 00:33:

Well it did come back as the Core Uarch which was a mash of Pentium M, Netburst and a bit of new tech. Netburst was not all bad it did have some good features buried in the core and they moved these to the Pentium M core and threw is a few new ones and well the rest is history.

This then carried Intel a long damn way . .all the way through Skylake.

Pentium M was just the shot across the bow, it was Core 2 Duo that sunk my battleship. E6600 was my first intel processor.

Dothan Burger wrote on Today, 01:05:

Trashbytes wrote on Today, 00:33:

Well it did come back as the Core Uarch which was a mash of Pentium M, Netburst and a bit of new tech. Netburst was not all bad it did have some good features buried in the core and they moved these to the Pentium M core and threw is a few new ones and well the rest is history.

This then carried Intel a long damn way . .all the way through Skylake.

Pentium M was just the shot across the bow, it was Core 2 Duo that sunk my battleship. E6600 was my first intel processor.

Core 2 was amazingly good, my favourite bit of kit to tinker with.

Pentium M CPU's are great overclockers. A nice thing about the rarity of desktop boards for these is that the CPUs are still (or at least were, I haven't checked lately) pretty cheap. I was able to buy the 780 I have for a little over $20.00 IIRC.

Repo Man11 wrote on Today, 02:46:

Pentium M CPU's are great overclockers. A nice thing about the rarity of desktop boards for these is that the CPUs are still (or at least were, I haven't checked lately) pretty cheap. I was able to buy the 780 I have for a little over $20.00 IIRC.

Weirdly the 400 FSB high multiplier parts are expensive now.

I was going through my collection of boards that need a recap and found a P4C-800E rev 2.0 non Deluxe. Was excited for about 5 minutes until I realized I couldn't get the CT-479.

Repo Man11 wrote on Today, 02:46:

Pentium M CPU's are great overclockers. A nice thing about the rarity of desktop boards for these is that the CPUs are still (or at least were, I haven't checked lately) pretty cheap. I was able to buy the 780 I have for a little over $20.00 IIRC.

Oh, maybe I should look into getting some more fun than the 735A for my CT-479/P4C800 then ... (not even sure it the 735A will run in that)

Dothan Burger wrote on Today, 00:28:

My first crack at a Pentium M retro build was this i915 ITX industrial board. […]
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Nexxen wrote on Yesterday, 23:00:

I've been looking for a 479 board myself but prices have always been ridiculous.
When I saw benchmarks I was impressed. Strange times we lived 😀

My first crack at a Pentium M retro build was this i915 ITX industrial board.

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Planned on using an adapter from mini PCI to full-size PCI for a sound card so I could fit it all in a Fractal Ridge. It all fell through after dropping hundreds $$$ on the Amfeltec solution that wasn't compatible with this board.

I really wanted either the Aopen 855 or the Kontron 886/ITX board, But that's life.

Love an ITX build!!

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Dothan Burger wrote on Yesterday, 18:03:

Picked up this Kontron 886LCD mATX board for pentium M. I love Industrial boards for some reason.

Love the Pentium M, and industrial boards, and Kontron 😀 I've got a very cool little "EBX" form factor PIII board , and a Kontron KTQ45 Flex-ATX with a Core 2 Quad CPU.

My most recent retro hardware acquisition is a Cherry G84-4100 PS/2 mini keyboard, which made me go squeee when I first saw it IRL; so tiny and cute, yet perfectly formed! I also picked up two Microsoft mice, one optical, one ball, which were incredibly filthy and disgusting, but also free. They cleaned up beautifully after disassembly and a bath: